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Fox's Book of Martyrs by John Foxe5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Because so many English Protestants were martyred during Mary’s reign, Foxe felt the need to add to his work to include more recent history. In Switzerland, Foxe published a work on martyrs of the early church, first in Latin (1554) and then in English (1563). However, when the Roman Catholic Mary I (“ Bloody Mary,” 1516-1558) came to power, Foxe fled to Europe where he began working as a printer. When Edward VI (1537-1553), who was sympathetic to Protestantism, came to the throne, Foxe was able to move about publicly. He turned to tutoring to earn a living and had to live in hiding for a while. When he finally and publicly embraced Protestantism, he was denounced as a heretic by the college, lost his fellowship, and was disowned by his family. ![]() Foxe studied the Scriptures as well as the writings of the early church fathers. Foxe began researching church history to help him better understand the controversies regarding the Catholic Church and the Reformation (see “Sketch of the Author” in Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, Create Space Independent Publishing, 2017, p. His first literary endeavors were in poetry and Latin comedies. As a youth, Foxe’s brilliance was recognized, and at Oxford University he earned a master’s degree and a fellowship (similar to a modern scholarship) at Magdalen College. John Foxe (also spelled Fox, 1516-1587) was an English Puritan preacher and church historian. ![]()
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